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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy Roman (AD c.43-c.402) plate brooch, missing a fragment from the loop that holds the spring in place. Overall, the brooch measures 40.4mm long, 19.5mm wide and 14.2mm thick. It weighs 9.92g.The plate of the brooch is in the shape of an anchor, with a narrow shaft at the head and the wide crescent/pelta shape at the foot. The spring has 8 complete turns. The rectangular foot projects backwards and slightly downwards from the back of the bottom of the plate, and terminates with a right-angle bend. The catchplate is integral to the foot and is formed from a semi-circular recession in the foot. The pin and spring are made from a different copper alloy to the plate and foot.This is a very unusual brooch. It is similar in style to brooches from Pannonia (a Roman province covering western Hungary, eastern Austria, northern Croatia, north-western Serbia, northern Slovenia, western Slovakia and northern Bosnia and Herzegovina). Normally the anchor -shaped design is reversed, i.e. the pelta-shaped part covers the spring at the head, and no parallels have been found for this example.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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